a.k.a. Gamera tai Daimaju Jaiga / Gamera vs. Monster X
company: Daiei Co. Ltd.
year: 1970
runtime: 82′
country: Japan
director: Noriaki Yuasa
cast: Tsutomo Takakuwa, Kelly Varis,
Katherine Murphy, Kon Omura
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It’s late 1969. You’ve got a five-picture franchise that you’ve been making on the cheap and reaping high profits that would make any Wall Street low-life jealous, so what do you do? You make a sixth! And that’s exactly what Daiei Motion Picture Company did, adding to their rather shaky series of Gamera, the giant flying turtle movies. Fortuantely, after a ginsu bat, a ginsu octopus, and a ginsu blade, the folks at Daiei decided to go back to basics with their new monster. . . sort of.
